Happy 2015

White Winter

We enter the second half of the decade with great enthusiasm and optimism. 2014 was the biggest year yet for 33 Dimensions as we continued to refine our services to meet the growing needs of small businesses, organizations, artists and entrepreneurs.With an improving economy and the proliferation of technology, we look forward to further success for our business and our clients.

Ric Albano
Owner and Chief Web Designer
33 Dimensions LLC

WordPress Presentation

Wordpress logoWe have put together a presentation on WordPress Basic Tips & Functions, which gives a good overview of various WordPress elements and can be an effective starting point for non-technical people interested in this very popular content management system. If your group is interested in scheduling this presentation or other custom-built tutorials, please contact Ric Albano at 717.829.4221.

Our Latest Client Website

Comics Movies Games

On January 1st, Comics Movies and Games was officially launched. This new site is a spin-off that evolved from some of the geekier elements on Big Blue Bullfrog, with the name of this new website pretty much telegraphing its content. The new site will also be debuting an original web comic this month.

Please visit this new website at ComicsMoviesGames.com along with the following social media channels:
Facebook   Twitter (@CMandG)   Google+


33 Dimensions provides low-cost, professional and effective website design that is highly functional, informative, and accessible. We also offer many related services to market your website and your business and will customize an affordable solution for you.

Check out our Online Portfolio and you will see that there is no job too complex or too small for us to handle for you. Feel free to give me a call at (717) 829-4221 or email me ric@33dimensions.com and I will personally negotiate a great deal to fulfill your online needs.

33 Dimensions
P.O. Box 126
Highspire, PA 17034
info@33dimensions.com

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12 Days of Christmas

Christmas Scene

There is no more perfect gift this holiday season than giving someone their own piece of “online real estate” to serve their business, hobby, or charitable causes. For the next 12 days (through December 24th), we are offering full websites for the incredibly low price of $333.00. Call or email for more details. Also, with our prices due to increase on January 1st, now would be a perfect time to take advantage of low prices on all our services, with no project too small.

Call me today at (717) 829-4221 or email ric@33dimensions.com to take advantage of one of our great deals in time for the holidays!

Ric Albano
Owner and Chief Web Designer
33 Dimensions LLC

Client News

Cornerstone Culinary logoEarlier today, the Cornerstone Culinary Kitchen released their Cooking Class Schedule for Early 2015. These include special classes to celebrate the Super Bowl, Valentine’s Day, Mardi Gras, and several more unique, informative, entertaining, and delicious culinary experiences.

Kids Theatre News logo One of our fastest growing clients, Kid’s Theatre News has been rapidly expanding its reach and offering new monthly features. The flagship website currently covers the theatre scene in Central Pennsylvania with plans to expand to other markets in the near future.

Big Blue BullfrogOne of our oldest websites, Big Blue Bullfrog, will be branching out in early 2015. A brand new website called Comics, Movies, and Games (the “trinity of geekdom”) will soon be launched as a dedicated site for the entertainment features which have proliferated on Big Blue Bullfrog over the past few years. Big Blue Bullfrog will continue to cover cultural issues, NFL football, and will be re-dedicated to achieving its original mission of being “The Thinkingman’s Website”


33 Dimensions provides low-cost, professional and effective website design that is highly functional, informative, and accessible. We also offer many related services to market your website and your business and will customize an affordable solution for you.

Check out our Online Portfolio and you will see that there is no job too complex or too small for us to handle for you. Feel free to give me a call at (717) 829-4221 or email me ric@33dimensions.com and I will personally negotiate a great deal to fulfill your online needs.

33 Dimensions
P.O. Box 126
Highspire, PA 17034
info@33dimensions.com

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Fast-Loading Attractive Efficient Low-Cost Websites

33 Dimensions Newsletter for December 19, 2013

Winter Solstice ImageAt 33 Dimensions, our goal is to provide custom website solutions and online experiences for our customers which best conform to each client’s specific business model. We encourage our clients to establish and maintain complete and total ownership of all their content, including logos, branding, copy, and media.

It is also important to us to provide the most efficient methods and technologies and we do not attempt to over-sell or over-promise. We guarantee the best price to value ratio for any comparable service.

Being that technology is constantly changing, we recognize that client needs may quickly change, so there is no long term contract required to get the best possible price for our services.

Check out our Online Portfolio and you will see that there is no job too complex or too small for us to handle for you. Feel free to give me a call at (717) 829-4221 or email me ric@33dimensions.com and I will personally negotiate a great deal to fulfill your online needs.

Ric Albano
Owner and Chief Web Designer
33 Dimensions LLC

The Perfect Christmas Gift

Winter Christmas ImageThere is no more perfect gift this holiday season than giving someone their own piece of “online real estate” to serve their business, hobby, or charitable causes. Call us at (717) 829-4221 or email ric@33dimensions.com to get a great deal in time for the holidays!

Two Website Lessons from 2013

1. There is absolutely no such thing as a “free” website!
2. A website should not cost over $600 million!

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P.O. Box 126
Highspire, PA 17034
info@33dimensions.com

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Two Website Lessons from 2013

Free Website - not!If there are two lessons that everyone should come away from 2013 learning about websites, I would say it would have to be these:

  • 1. There is absolutely no such thing as a “free” website!
  • 2. A website should not cost over $600 million!

I will tackle the second point first because that is much easier to grasp. Of course, what I’m referring to is the “Obamacare” website Healthcare.gov, which amazingly did not work when it was launched on October 1st (it is now about 75 days later and the jury is still out on whether it actually works).

To be exact, it was reported by Digital Trends that the contractor CGI Federal received $634,320,919 to construct Healthcare.gov. Now to appreciate this amount, it is more money than Facebook spent in its first six years of existence (you know, the years went it went completely viral) and it is also more than the amount spent building two more recent services – Linkedin and Spotify – combined. All that money spent and it didn’t work for at the least its first two months of existence.

As a small business web developer, I’m sure I could have figured out a way to get competent developers to complete the site on time and working for, I don’t know, about 1/1000th of that cost! But they never asked me.

Now for the first point, the opposite end of the money spectrum. There is absolutely no such thing as a “free” website! Whenever you hear such a claim to “build a website for free”, what you are actually getting is a new example of an old trick that big companies do to try and squash small competitors (in this case, small business web developers like myself) by cleverly masking a false offer. You’ve surely seen or heard of these free website offers, many from three-letter companies that start with the letter ‘w’ and only disclose the fact that you have to pay a monthly fee in order to keep your “free” website in the cluttered disclaimer at the end.

For companies who are serious about starting and staying in business, such offers do not stand up in the long run for two primary reasons. First, you lose the ability to expand unless you pay the fixed price arbitrarily set by the company. This ties in well with the second reason, you ultimately do not own anything – neither content nor domain name. It is almost akin to those fake houses on a Hollywood set, nice enough to look at but totally impractical to live in.

So, if you’d like a website which is neither free nor $600 million, check out a quality website developer like 33 Dimensions and you will actually get what you pay for (if not more!)

4th Anniversary

 

33 Dimensions Newsletter
March 3, 2013

4 FingersThank You for Four Great Years!

I had a bit of an epiphany on the morning of March 3, 2009, when the date itself (3/3) sparked the idea for the title “33 Dimensions”, a name which seemed to fit with all the diverse projects on which I was working on at the time. I had known for a while that I would eventually tie everything together into one clean “organization” based on website design, music production, and other projects. But it wasn’t until that Tuesday morning four years ago when, as I was getting ready for work, I came up with this odd name which made so much sense to me that I immediately registered the .com, .org, .net, and .info domains and started building this business.

Working with small businesses, artists, and entrepreneurs has been extremely rewarding as this business has steadily grown over the past four years. In fact, this fourth year has seen the business nearly double in volume and scope.

Now, as we enter our fifth year as a business, I am proud to announce that 33 Dimensions is now offfering responsive design for new websites, which means our well-built, professional sites will now be optimized for all devices, especially mobile and tablet devices.

I look forward to many more great years of service for all of you who helped make this small business dream a reality.

Ric Albano
Owner and Creative Director
33 Dimensions LLC


Turnkey Restaurant for Sale

Biagio's Subs n SudsWe are working on a whole new website with a new design (note the new logo on top) in time for our 4th anniversary in March. The new 33 Dimensions website will include regular articles with valuable information for our customers as well as many more features on small businesses and news concerning the web design industry.


March Madness

March is going to be an extremely busy month for 33 Dimensions and our clients, with many exciting new projects in the works. We expect to have more than a couple of huge announcements in our next newsletter in early April. See you then!

 
33 Dimensions
P.O. Box 126
Highspire, PA 17034
info@33dimensions.com

 


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